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Any ideas what these signs on this building mean? (lemmy.ml)

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Aside of these signs and the address numbers, the building is completely unmarked.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Likely it's a water treatment plant, probably a dosing plant for drinking water. Signs indicate which kind of chemical hazards are present, stored in relatively large and concentrated quantities.

No other signage because it's critical infrastructure, and if you need to know, you know.

Dosing buildings like this are common downstream from dams and reservoirs. Where I live, they are also mostly unmarked and heavily fenced off. Same as electrical substations, phone exchanges and other infra.